My broader research interests include knowledge production and circulation (“epistemic mobilities”); critical migration studies; environmental mobilities; science and technology studies; media analysis; and methodological innovations for the study of im/mobilities. Publications Peer-reviewed Can we debunk climate migration myths? COMPAS Seminar Series on Climate Migration, Oxford, UK [online] (January 2022) Advisor, Advisory board for an NGO-led study on ‘Environmental Migrations and Social Movements’. Coordinated by the CRID for the Des Ponts pas des Murs collective (2020 – 2021). If Ferrero can expand Delacre’s presence geographically and within the alternative retail channel, including retail stores, foodservice and online, it has a good chance of boosting its already profitable business. ​

Setting the ‘climate migrant’ label in motion. A review of concepts for the study of a mobile idea, Symposium on ‘A Mobilities Lens to the Human Mobility – Environmental Change Nexus’, Wageningen University, Netherlands (June 2019) Ferrero – maker of Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, Tic Tac and Kinder Bueno – had initially made a bid for Delacre in July, it was understood. Last week, Ferrero revealed it was close to sealing a deal​ for the biscuit maker, and claimed it expected to complete the deal by mid-December. The sale by Pladis – formed in June by combining the global confectionery assets of UB owner Yildiz – was in line with the group’s strategy to focus on growing core brands, including McVitie’s and Godiva Chocolatier in key markets, notably North America, industry sources told The Grocer earlier this year. Rather than seeking to provide definite answers about what climate migration is, or even how we should talk about it, my PhD thesis examines how other people react when confronted with these analytical and political questions. I map, trace, and explain the different ways in which other people answer them. How do they know what climate migration is? What are the processes of knowledge production and dissemination that people use to make sense of climate migration, what modes of representation, what political frameworks? On a theoretical level, I define this approach as a study of the “epistemic mobilities” of climate migration.I am a human geographer and critical migration scholar interested in the political, cultural, and epistemological controversies arising from growing concern about climate change’s impact on human mobilities. I situate my work broadly within the fields of mobilities studies, social science of climate change, and geographies of knowledge. Having successfully defended my PhD thesis in September 2022, I joined the UNU-EHS in November 2022 as a senior researcher in the “Environment and Migration: Interactions and Choices” (EMIC) section. Career Climate Migration Discourses in the French and UK Press: A Comparative Analysis, in panel on “Climate Control: Politicising Hopes and Fears of Migration in a Changing Climate – Climates of Fear”, RGS-IGB Conference, London, UK (August 2019) Durand-Delacre, D., Farbotko, C., Froehlich, C. and Boas, I. (2020, October 7 th) Climate Migration: what the research shows is very different from the alarmist headlines. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/climate-migration-what-the-research-shows-is-very-different-from-the-alarmist-headlines-146905 Migrations climatiques: une idée qui bouge, PhD workshop with policy-makers, Cité de la Solidaire Internationale, Annemasse, France [online] (November 2020)

DeliChoc, which is part of the Delacre portfolio, was launched under the McVitie’s brand in the UK in January 2015. Réfugiés Bienvenue (Refugees Welcome France), Paris. President (04/2017 – 10/2018). Previously: Vice-President (06/2016 – 03/2017) and volunteer (11/2015 – 02/2017). Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Durand-Delacre, D., and Teksoz, K. (2016) Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards – Global Report. New York: Bertelsmann Stiftung and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). http://www.sdgindex.org/

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Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Teksoz, K., Durand-Delacre, D., & Sachs, J. D. (2017). National baselines for the Sustainable Development Goals assessed in the SDG Index and Dashboards. Nature Geoscience, 10(8), 547-555. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2985 UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Paris. Associate (07/2016 – 07/2017). Previously: Analyst (03/2015 – 06/2016).

En 2014, United Biscuits, dont Delacre, est acquis pour près de 2,6 milliards de dollars par Yildiz, une importante entreprise agroalimentaire turque [6 ]. Ferrero has appointed Jerome Gregoire, currently head of the company’s operations in Greece, Cyprus and Malta, as managing director at Delacre, the biscuit-maker it has just bought from United Biscuits. Mis)Representing Climate Mobilities: Lessons from Documentary Filmmaking, Entangled Im/Mobilities Conference, Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies, University of Vienna [online] (March 2021)

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Ferrero’s acquisition could prove to be a good, strategic move by the premium chocolate maker, claimed Euromonitor International. The deal could result in more chocolate manufacturers looking to break into the biscuit market, it said. As part of the transaction, Ferrero will take over all production facilities as well as retain the management and the employees of the businesses. Durand-Delacre, D. (2022) (Mis)representing climate mobilities: lessons from documentary filmmakers. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(14), 3397-3415. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2066260 (Open Access)